Problem of latency loading grub [repost]

[The Peach]

I'll renew my problem since it hasn't been yet solved.

Hi all,
        I have a strange problem I've never had with grub:
Right after the bios loading Grub starts loading, but takes a lot to
give me the selection screen: the two loading sentences ("Loading grub"
"loading stage 1.5" if I'm not wrong) are followed by a long time
(something like 30 seconds) before going on, after the selection screen
everything works fine.
        I'm quite new to grub but everything I found on the man pages
and manual didn't help me (did I miss something?) so I'm asking here
hoping someone can.

        The hardware system I'm using is:
mobo: ASUS a7v266e (2 eide slots and 2 slots - unused - UDMA Fasttrack
controlled)

grub.conf
[code]
timeout 30
default 0
#splashimage=(hd0,7)/grub/splash-peach.xpm.gz
title  Gentoo GNU/Linux (+fb +splash)
        root (hd0,7)
        kernel (hd0,7)/bzImage root=/dev/hda9 vga=0x317
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr
        initrd /boot/initrd-livecd-2004.1-1024x768
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows 2000
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1
[/code]
as you can see I've already tried to comment out the slash image I've
done by myself but nothing has changed at all

The partition of /dev/hda is
hda1 (hd0,0) primary fat32 [about 10 GB]
hda3 (hd0,2) primary fat32 [about 1 GB]
hda5 (hd0,4) logical ext2 [about 2 GB] [note: to be deleted]
hda6 (hd0,5) logical linux swap [about 1 GB]
hda7 (hd0,6) logical ext3 [about 10 GB]
hda8 (hd0,7) logical ext3 [about 100 MB] [note: this is the boot part]
hda9 (hd0,8) logical ext3 [about 10 GB]
hda10 (hd0,9) logical fat32 [about 5 GB]

The other disk I've got is /dev/hdb, with 2 fat32 partitions for data
storing... nothing else.

gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3-r6, ssp-3.3.2-2,
pie-8.7.6)
grub (GNU GRUB 0.94)

Thanks in advance,

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The Peach

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